Cockeye



(No Model.)

G. J. LETOHWORTH.

GOGKEYE. No. 325,946. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. LETGHWORTH, BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

COQCKEYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,946, dated September 8, 1885.

Application filed January 15, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

'Be it known that I, GEORGE J. LEToH- WORTH, of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Gockeyes, of which the following is a specification. I

The object of this invention is to improve the construction of harness-cockeyes, whereby they are made much stronger and more durable than heretofore. Oockeyes as usually constructed are provided with a narrow neck or shank which connects the eye or loop of the cockeye with the cross-bar which is fastened to the end of the trace, and in use the cockeye is easily broken at the point of connection between the loop and the cross-bar.

My invention is designed to remedy this defeet; and it consists in the improvements in the construction of the cockeye, which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 an elevation, of my improved cockeye.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in theseveral figures.

A represents the eye or loop of the cockeye, and B the cross-bar, to which the loop is ordinarily connected by a neck or shank, b. The bar B is provided at its ends with ears or lugs c o, to which is secured a cross bar or bolt, D. The end of the trace is fastened to said cross bar or bolt D between the lugs c a.

e e represent side bars, which connect the loop A with the bar B and bars a, on opposite sides of the shank b, and forming braces between these parts. The braces e are located in the direction in which the strain is transmitted from the end of the eye to the ends of the cross-bar B, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, so that the braces are principally subjected to a tensile strain, thereby relieving the shank b from the breaking-strains which tend to destroy the cockeye.

By means of the braces e e the connection between the loop and the'end bar is greatly strengthened without materially increasing the weight and cost of the cockeye, thus producing a stronger and more reliable and serv iceable cockeye.

I claim as my invention- As an improved article of manufacture, a cockeye composed of a loop, A, cross-bar B, central shank, b, and side braces, e 6, connecting the loop with the cross-bar on opposite sides of the central shank, and bar or bolt D, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 26th day of December, 1884.

SAMUEL C. ADAMS, GEORGE V. COOPER. 

